last round of SAT
October 10, 2009 9:34 PMToday I took my last SAT ever. It felt amazing after, even though I wasn't really prepping and flipping out over it. A lot of my stress is subconscious I think, as my mind is preoccupied with other things. I didn't prep much, but I feel like I did a lot better than my first time. I knew the style better, my English has improved significantly after studying for the AP Lang test, and I've had more experience at standardized testing. I also really liked Berkeley High, it put me more at ease than El Cerrito did for some reason. Maybe it's just because I'm different than my junior self during March. Less stress, no anxiety, it was a good test.
Everything about it should have been terrible though. At church last night we decided to have KFC for dinner, and so my stomach wasn't really feeling so hot. I had to defecate that night and was still feeling unsettled as I went to bed. The thing is, I went to bed around 11:30. I woke up at 6:15 because I wanted to make sure I would be on time, since I was taking BART to Berkeley. My test was scheduled for 7:45 arrival time. Usually, I'm out the door by 7:10 if I wake up at 6:30, but I didn't know if that would cut it in case the train didn't come for a while, so I decided to wake up 15 minutes earlier.
I got there about 7:15, and I was kind of confused. My math was way off I guess. I got prepared a lot faster this morning--lately I've been forgoing showers to have QT in the morning, which wakes me up a lot better than showers do I've come to realize. It's also just a great way to start, and stay focused. Berkeley was slow too, so nothing really happened till about 8:15 anyways, which meant a lot of waiting.
I guess the old me would have been tripping about how much sleep and how that amount of sleep dictates my barometer of energy. I don't think that way anymore; you either have energy or you don't. Thinking about how much you slept, or didn't sleep last night doesn't directly affect how energized you feel now. Numbers are just numbers. If you're tired, you probably know why, but if you're not, don't question it. If it's not broken, you usually don't need to fix it.
It was good. I felt very confident about the majority of the questions. I think I skipped a total of 3 or 4 questions, and there was one I know I messed up on the math section, but besides that I'm pretty optimistic. I'd like to have at least 2100, but I'm really hopeful for better.
I just feel like there was so much about the testing that could've made it bad. I didn't sleep much, my stomach was unsettled (I felt like I had to crap in the morning but I didn't so it just hurt), and I woke up about an hour earlier than necessary. None of those circumstances bothered me though, because what's the point of fretting over them? I took a good test, I'm glad that I ended the SAT on this note, and I'm so grateful that I didn't have to study for it. Hopefully the culmination of my hard work as a student of the years can buffer for the complete lack of studying I did for both SATs and ACTs that are so important to my entrance to college. Plug it into the equation, shouldn't I have done pretty horribly?